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Wonderful mindbroadening a journey to alternative realities as extraordinary as any youll find in science fiction The Times Book of the Week
Humans have three or four colourdetecting cones in their retinas Mantis shrimp have 16 In fact their eyes seem to have more in common with satellite technology than with biological vision as we currently understand it They have evolved to track movement with an acuity no other species can match by processing raw information they may not see in the human sense at all
Marine molluscs called chitons have eyes which are made of stone Scorpions appear to see with their entire bodies It isnt only vision that differs from species to species some animals also have senses we lack entirely Knifefish navigate by electrical charge
An Immense World will take us on an insiders tour of the natural world by describing the biology physics and chemistry animals use to perceive it We may lack some of their senses but our own supersense lies in our ability to understand theirs And in the face of the largest extinction event since the meteor that killed the dinosaurs our only hope of saving other species is bound up with our ability to see what they see and feel what they feel
Ed Yong 2022 P Penguin Audio 2022
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